Study: Same-sex Couples Prefer Marriage or Civil Unions
KCBS
August 3, 2008


Researchers at UCLA’s Williams Institute have found that 40 percent of all same-sex couples preferred marriage or civil unions, but “marriage” carried more social status for them.
Gary Gates, co-author of the study, said divorce rates are about the same as they are for heterosexual couples.

“In a given year, about two percent of the same-sex couples who were formally recognized dissolve their relationships, and among heterosexual married couples about two percent of them each year divorce.”

Gates said that the study does not include statistics for same-sex marriages in California because the state does not require you register your gender. Some feminists criticize marriage as a traditional heterosexual institute, but Gates found that two-to-one, female couples are the ones that enter into formal domestic partnerships.